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We're doing some late Summer renovations at The Cult and one of the sections we would like to improve upon is our Book sections. We never had a great Quotes addition to each book section. Rather, I had to do outside links to other fan pages that had compiled their list of quotes. But many of these fan sites are no long gone, rendering the link defunct on our end.

So we need you to help us out! Everyone post their favorite DIARY quotes in this thread as replies. After a week or so, we'll take all the quotes and compile them a new quotes sub-section for the respective master section.

Rich People don’t like to tolerate much. Money gives you the permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t just pretty and perfect. You can’t put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliché.

These useless details are only useless until you connect them all together.

Everything is nothing by itself.

An artists job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

No detail is anything by itself.

Everything is a self portrait.
Everything is a diary.

You can’t buy inspiration. You can’t reason your way to an epiphany. Develop a formula. A road map to enlightenment.

While the inspiration comes, you keep going.

A flash of inspiration. A moment of insight.

Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. The muse. Our guardian angel. Suffering takes us out of our rational self control and lets the divine channel through us.

There is nothing special in the world. Nothing Magic. Just physics.

People who look for supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive me nuts.

Art, inspiration, love, they’re all so easy to dissect. To explain away.

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Its so hard to hard to forget pain, but its even harder to remember sweetness.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

I can see that my life isn’t an end. It’s a mean to the future.

Just for the record, the weather today is slightly maudlin.

Your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Doomed to fame. Cursed with talent. Life after Life.

Art school doesn’t teach you how to escape your soul being recycled.
Period revival.
Our own homemade immortality.

How you live inside your head and you only see what you want.
How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

We already know everything. We just need to remember it.

A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

Somebody’s homemade immortality.
Their lasting effect.
Their Life after Death.

It's from page 111 and it goes...
'Anytime some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. That's the Misty Wilmot drinking game.'

Please add that to the quotes page, I love it! It's my favourite quote from a book ever.

"Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way."

"the visionary must live apart from the normal world, and reject comfort and conformity in order to connect with the divine."

"Because everything is important. Every detail. We just don't know it yet."

"Everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' of 'The Rape of the Sabine Women', but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. Even the reason why you chose the scene, it's you. You are every color and brushstroke."

"Before we go any further, you might want to put on some extra clothes. You might want to stock up on some extra B vitamins. Maybe some extra brain cells. If you're reading this in public, stop until you're wearing your best good underwear."

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